Re: Timezone for %t log_line_prefix

Andreas Pflug wrote:

> If %t is used in log_line_prefix, win32's strftime will print a very
> long timezone information, e.g. "W. Europe Daylight Time" where Linux
> would write "UTC". This makes the timestamp consuming more than half
> of an average line length.
> Do we have alternatives to the long form? Do we need the timezone
> information at all? We know already it's the server's time. Another
> alternative would be a short timestamp (%t vs. %T) to have both.
>
>

That's ugly, and unfortunately %z is GNU-specific. The quick fix for now
does seem to be providing alternative forms - %T and %S make sense. Of
course, if we wanted it *really* short we could just print out the
current epoch time in 8 hex digits :-)

cheers

andrew